ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,045, issued on July 29, was assigned to STREEM LLC (Portland, Ore.).
"Efficient texture mapping of a 3-D mesh" was invented by Pavan Kumar Kamaraju (London), Nikilesh Urella (Portland, Ore.) and Flora Ponjou Tasse (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Frames for texturing a 3D mesh may be selected to minimize the number of frames required to completely texture the mesh, thus reducing the overhead of texturing. Keyframes are selected from a video stream on the basis of amount of overlap from previously selected keyframes, with the amount of overlap held below a predetermined threshold. The 3D mesh may also be refined and corrected to...